C2 Solutions Architect

About the role

As a C2 Solutions Architect, you will translate your customer's IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting, deploying, and sustaining the full hardware-and-software stack behind a command-and-control capability. This is a hands-on, client-facing engineering role that bridges traditional system administration, communications systems, and modern cloud/virtualization, in a forward operating environment.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer's IT needs and future goals into a plan
• Craft, deploy, and sustain the full hardware-and-software stack
• Bridge traditional system administration, communications systems, and modern cloud/virtualization
• Work in a forward operating environment
• Bridge traditional system administration, communications systems, and modern cloud/virtualization
• Help transform the way Air Operations Centers (AOC) and DoW uses technology including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems
• Mentor the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow’s solutions architects
• Shape the digital solutions business and identify opportunities for growth

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience operating and troubleshooting communications systems, including military radios, such as load, program, and troubleshoot, and commercial communications equipment
• 6+ years of experience as a system administrator supporting Windows or Linux servers, including build, configuration, patching, and sustainment
• 6+ years of experience wiring, cabling, and integrating servers and computing systems, including reading and interpreting wiring schematics and rack or one-line diagrams
• Experience deploying software applications to a virtual machine or cloud environment, including hands-on work with AWS and VMware ESXi
• Experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker or Kubernetes, for application deployment
• Experience applying general security compliance practices, such as RMF, STIGs, hardening, and vulnerability remediation, to fielded systems
• Experience standing up, configuring, and maintaining a tactical or deployable data center
• Experience communicating directly with clients and stakeholders to translate operational needs into technical solutions

Qualifications

• Top Secret clearance
• HS diploma or GED

Skills

• Command-and-control (C2) systems and tactical data links, such as Link 16 or JREAP-C, and RF theory
• Infrastructure-as-code or configuration management such as Terraform or Ansible, for repeatable deployments
• Supporting deployable, expeditionary, or austere field environments
• High-voltage power system troubleshooting supporting data center or field infrastructure
• Knowledge of HVAC or environmental-control troubleshooting for server and equipment spaces
• Knowledge of AWS GovCloud or other secure or classified cloud enclaves
• Network configuration and troubleshooting, including routing, switching, and VLANs, for stood-up C2 enclaves

Benefits

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings. Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility. Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility. Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.